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Take it from South Dakota Democratic Party farmers: Trump ag and trade policies are disastrous for rural America — The South Dakota Standard Three South Dakota farmers are pushing back against President Trump’s farm policies. In a video released Tuesday morning, South Dakota Democratic Party Chair Shane Merrill, former legislator Fr...

“America first has been replaced by Argentina first.” — South Dakota farmer Charlie Johnson
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New Reports Bring Global Solutions to Bolster U.S. Lawmakers in the Fight to Protect Reproductive Freedom - O'Neill WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the State Innovation Exchange (SiX) and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health, released Beyond Borders, a groundbreaking report series that examines how countr...

Here's a groundbreaking report that examines how countries around the world have successfully expanded abortion access and protected reproductive rights. The reports offer U.S.-based policymakers proven strategies to counter restrictions and treat abortion as essential health care.

Despicable The bully-in-chief is targeting women in the White House press corps

Despicable
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Great read from Dan Rather:
"...The very existence of a free press is a threat to this president’s modus operandi, which is to govern by lying. Why would he want people around him who ask for facts and truthful answers?..."
#BlueCrew #MisogynistInChief

@degette.house.gov I’m a constituent from Denver. We need a law to make it illegal for any federal law enforcement agency to use police on their uniforms. The FBI doesn’t use police. There uniforms need to clearly identify them as ICE, CBP, etc. The law also needs to make it mandatory

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In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.

Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I’m pushing 70 and I’d never seen a US ‘president’ specifically NOT invited to a high-dignitary’s funeral

uh…before fatass, that is.

Correct me if I’m wrong…but haven’t Barbara Bush, John McCain and Dick Cheney EACH left clear instructions to keep fat, bigot, rapist, felons TF out of their party?

Kelly: "My family has suffered from political violence. My wife, Gabby, was nearly assassinated, shot in the head at a political event. Even the president -- 2 assassination attempts -- he should understand his words have significant weight and people react to things that he says."

In the richest city on Earth, 40% of NYC families can’t afford weekly food costs, and food prices are up 33% over the past decade.

It’s time for a city government that puts affordability at the top of the agenda.

NORTH CAROLINA DIDN’T SIT BACK AND DO NOTHING!!
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Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:

“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”

Mark Kelly: "He's talked about sending troops into more cities, he's talked about invoking the Insurrection Act. You don't have to go too far back to his 1st administration when he went to his Sec Def & said, 'Can't we just shoot these protesters in the legs.' That is an example of an illegal order"

Y'all ... Border Patrol and Ice are leaving Charlotte by the end of the week. We apparently ran their asses out.

Farmers – long Trump backers – bear the costs of new tariffs, restricted immigration and slashed renewable energy subsidies In the past, farmers have balanced their political beliefs against market logic. How much pressure can farmers endure?

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Here’s the Mexican Marines removing signs stating that the Mexican beach is a restricted area by the US Department of Defense. Yes, it’s real.

An open book lying on a work surface. There is a full page illustration on the left (and this is a 14 inch or 35 centimeter tall book) and a meticulously written page of text on the right. The book is a facsimile, printed in 2001, of the 1493 German language edition of a history of the world.

It's a complete facsimile of a hand-tinted 1493 Nuremberg Weltchronik, and I think... you might have to arm wrestle me for it.

(...That's not a meek threat coming from someone who can lift 4 OED volumes off an overhead shelf in one motion.)

AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.

Crow: "It just tells us everything that we need to know that reminding people to obey the law, reminding people to obey the Constitution, is somehow criminal in Trumpworld and should be responded to with death threats. It's very, very telling."

The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and that more than 400,000 U.S. troops died fighting against in World War II, as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month.

Now that’s a lede.

Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.

Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Worth reiterating that the Coast Guard is part of DHS, not the military.

So if this is "acceptable" Coast Guard policy, it's also probably an acceptable policy at ICE, CBP, Secret Service, and other agencies under DHS if it's not already.

“At a time when antisemitism is rising in the United States and around the world, relaxing policies aimed at fighting hate crimes not only sends the wrong message to the men and women of our Coast Guard, but it puts their safety at risk,” Senator Jackie Rosen said in a statement.

U.S. Coast Guard Will No Longer Consider Swastika a Hate Symbol The Coast Guard seems to be fine with Nazis now.

Decent people: "Hey, these hate symbols are terrorizing some of our service members. We should do something about that."

Coast Guard: "Say no more, fam. Those are no longer hate symbols. Problem solved."

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How upside down is our world? The White House occupant thinks elected public servants who say the military should not follow illegal orders are "punishable by death." We exactly need public servants to speak out against illegal orders and not be cowed by a man who despises our Constitution.

Elizabeth Burgwin: the first Special Educational Needs Coordinator As part of Disability History Month, I'm shining a spotlight on Elizabeth Burgwin, who we could call the first Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO).

Disability History Month is here!

Elizabeth Burgwin was possibly the world's first SENCO (Special Educational Needs Coordinator). She pioneered work with disabled children so they could reach their full potential.

Warning! She is a complicated woman!

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Loved joining the Sussex County Democratic Committee this week to celebrate the wins from earlier this month and talk about the road ahead to flipping CD-7.

Together, we’re building the team that’s going to flip this seat next year. Come join us!

Cartoon: Release, shmelease A cartoon by Drew Sheneman. Related |� Trump is definitely not mad about the vote to release the Epstein ...

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Truly vile behavior from this President, and we all have to call it out for what it is: dangerous and un-American rhetoric from a man who wants to be king.

Key HIV Programs in the US Are in Danger — and the Impact Will Be Devastating Health experts warn that Republicans are undermining even the most baseline HIV prevention infrastructure.

Key HIV Programs in the US Are in Danger — and the Impact Will Be Devastating truthout.org/articles/key...

Hawai‘i Farmers Turn to Korean Natural Farming to Revive Soil and Strengthen Local Food Systems - Overstory Korean Natural Farming has attracted farmers and gardeners who want to use fewer imported, synthetic chemicals and better nurture the lands they care for.

As farm costs rise, some local farmers are turning to a method of regenerative agriculture called Korean Natural Farming, which emphasizes building fertile soil and nurturing plants' natural cycles.